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When we cannot count on a bank loan, it is worth considering an instant loan via the Internet. Currently, there are many loan companies on the market, where you can get money to your account in fifteen minutes. In addition, such loans are obtained without verification – often it is enough to have a valid ID card.
Where can you apply for non-bank quick loans in Greenwood, IN and what are their types? There are many offers on the market and it is worth getting to know all the possibilities before choosing the most suitable loan. First, you need to know what are the types of loans available online in Indiana same day.
Types of Online Loans in Greenwood, IN
There are many companies on the market that offer online loans, payday loans and many more. The most important types of loans that can be obtained outside the bank are:
- Online Payday Loans Same DayOne of the most recognizable products of the loan companies sector are payday loans. These are quick non-bank loans granted online. Most often these are payday loans of up to 30 days. Some companies allow you to repay the liability within 60 days (or even 65 days). A characteristic feature of this type of liability is that the entire debt must be repaid in one tranche. Typically, the amount of such a loan is $1,000, but some companies offer even larger amounts. On the occasion of this type of non-bank fast loan, the product should be mentioned, which is payday loans for free. This commitment can be made by borrowers who use the services of a given lender for the first time.
- Same Day Installment LoansIn the non-banking sector, two basic types of financial support can be distinguished. They differ in the length of the loan period. One of them is non-bank payday loans, as the name suggests, they are characterized by a short term. Traditionally, it is 30 days. The second is non-bank installment loans, which, thanks to the distribution of the total amount to be repaid into equal parts, guarantee the possibility of relieving our finances and adjusting the installment to the household budget. It is also worth mentioning that depending on the company we choose we can meet with a system of weekly or monthly installments. We have to choose the solution that is right for us but remember that weekly payments to the lender's account involve slightly higher costs.
- Fast Personal Loans Instant Approval OnlineNon-bank personal loans resemble traditional bank loans in their idea. Their advantage, however, is the reduction of formalities to a minimum. This type of financial product can be obtained by people who have no credit history, which, unlike bank loans, is almost impossible. Non-bank personal loans also have another advantage – loan companies do not require the purpose for which the funds obtained are to be allocated. The offer of lenders operating on the U.S. market includes companies that offer non-bank personal loans without certificates. With personal loans, you can get up to $35,000 for a repayment period of up to 60 months.
- Same Day Car Title Loans Direct DepositLenders provide an attractive alternative to offers offered by banks. A secured title loan is a satisfactory amount of up to $50,000, free use of the vehicle throughout the duration of the contract and quick completion of formalities. You are guaranteed an instant cash injection in a short time. A car title loan becomes possible for every vehicle owner. Lenders select the optimal repayment period for your financial situation and make sure that the car loan is as favorable as possible for you. The contract can be signed for up to 4 years to spread the repayment into a convenient number of installments.
How To Take a Quick Loan in Greenwood, IN?
Online loans can be obtained by anyone. Non-bank loans are quick cash that you can already have in your account in fifteen minutes, and sometimes even less. This loan can be used for any purpose. In addition, many documents are unnecessary that will confirm our income and whether we are employed in a company where we have a signed employment contract or contract of mandate. Instant loans can be taken by people who also do not have a permanent job, are retired or indebted.
Before taking an instant loan in Greenwood, IN, you should carefully review all offers, e.g. the loan rankings, where all loans are described in an accurate and clear way. Due to the fact that loans without credit check are available, your credit history will certainly not be checked, and thanks to this, those who already have a loan or are entered in such a register will be able to take another loan. To settle an online loan, you also need an ID card and a mobile phone and nothing else.
Can I Get an Instant Loan with Bad Credit?
Yes, you can. Another type of loan in Greenwood, IN is a loan for bad credit, which can be applied for by anyone who already has some debt and is in the debtor databases. It is also for those people who already have some financial obligations. Therefore, the person taking the loan, which is the loan for bad credit, will certainly not be checked in this register, because it will not be of interest to the lender.
Online Same Day Loans in Greenwood, IN – Advantages and Disadvantages
As it turns out, these types of loans have both advantages and disadvantages. Their popularity is certainly influenced by the fact that they can be obtained after presenting only an ID card.
They do not require any other unnecessary formalities and, moreover, quite often they are granted on the same day.
Unfortunately, in many cases you also have to take into account their high interest rate. Some non-bank institutions offer not very favorable installments, the interest rate of which is even 1/3 of their amount. Summing up all the installments, it often turns out that these types of loans are not an attractive solution, but they are usually the only option that interested people can take advantage of.
Before using this type of service, it is worth carefully considering all the advantages and disadvantages, and then choose the right offer that allows you to reduce the unpleasant consequences to a minimum.
The Best Online Lending Companies in Greenwood, IN
There are quite a lot of non-bank companies in Greenwood, IN that willingly provide financial support to interested people. It is best to familiarize yourself with their capabilities beforehand, paying attention to virtually every detail.
First of all, it is worth considering the amount you want to borrow, because it very often depends on it the final amount to be returned to the non-bank institution.
Nothing stands in the way of using, for example, the options provided by individual comparison websites. Very often, thanks to them, you can come across detailed statements that allow you to thoroughly analyze the arguments for and against a specific loan form and the company that provides it.
In this way, you can avoid many unpleasant consequences that could arise when paying off individual installments.
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These will be decidedly unhappy holidays for hundreds of thousands of workers who won't have jobs thanks to the steep economic downturn and the financial crisis.
At a time when the economy usually creates about 300,000 jobs during the November-December holiday span, economists predict it likely will lose about twice that, creating a void of about 1 million fewer jobs this year.
The pain from such a yuletide contraction will be felt far and wide. Friday's jobs number will provide the first indication of how bad things are so far, but not about how bad they'll get.
"There's a newfound urgency on the part of companies to get their financial houses in order so that they can brace themselves for what lies ahead in the weak global economy and then be in a position to respond to it swiftly with a leaner, meaner work force," says David Ressler, chief economist at Nomura Securities in New York.
"That's going to be one of the many factors holding back consumer spending during the holidays," he adds. "It's definitely going to be a tough Christmas for a lot of people."
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Analysts expect the retail and manufacturing industries to get hit hardest—in general, anything consumer-related—with health care and educational services to be largely spared.
The latest business news.
The worst of the layoffs will occur in the coming three or four months, with the consensus for a let-up happening around the end of the second quarter in 2009.
But until then—and especially during the holiday season, which retailers rely on for their lifeblood—the onslaught of job cuts will be brutal, with even the temporary workers that stores hire affected.
"For individual households it's devastating and it's painful and it's just about every horrible adjective you can attach to it, " Ressler says. "But it does come to an end. When it does, the economy will start to improve, people will start getting their lives back in order."
Cleaning Up Balance Sheets
Job losses always have had a ripple effect through the economy. But during a time when retail sales are so weak and housing continues to struggle, the unemployment numbers will be felt especially hard.
The monthly jobless claims report—November's is due Friday and will be closely watched—is only a lagging indicator of what happened in the previous month.
What's scarier, then, is what lies ahead, and December's number will provide even more gloom. AT&T unveiled plans Thursday to cut 12,000 workers starting immediately, while DuPont will lay off 2,500 and Credit Suisse will slash 5,300 from its payrolls.
"What happens is it feeds on itself," says Quincy Krosby, chief investment strategist at The Hartford. "Businesses will watch what their competitors are doing, particularly in an environment where you're not seeing much demand. You don't want your competitors to have an advantage, and part of that is your competitor is cutting costs. Chances are it will lead to more cuts on your balance sheet."
"You look at the retailers dealing with razor-thin margins, probably at the stage where they just want to clear inventory—hardly a scenario for hiring," she adds.
With investors clamoring for tighter bottom lines, companies will be under intense pressure to clean house before closing the books on 2008, with layoffs carrying over by some estimates through much of 2010
"It's a real shame but that's the way things work these days. It takes a long time to get back to profitability, particularly when we have pretty modest economic recoveries," says Kurt Karl, chief US economist at Swiss Re. "You hope it's not going to happen before the holidays, but businesses have to do what they have to do."
As far as putting money to work in the stock market, the layoff climate makes things dicey for investors--on one hand the layoffs will help with profitability but on the other they reduce consumers' ability to shop and buy homes.
At the same time, the market will have to deal with the continuing problems of the auto industry and the specter of a massive federal bailout or one of the big companies falling into bankruptcy.
A congressional bailout package for Detroit will be only a "postponement package," Krosby says, to soften the blow to the economy of the massive job losses that would be associated with the collapse of either General Motors (NYSE: GM), Ford (NYSE: F) or Chrysler.
"If the economy had been growing at, say, three and a half or 4 percent and one of the companies had these problems, we'd probably be involved in a planned bankruptcy," she says. "At this point we are postponing that because the economy cannot handle the unintended consequences of a major hit to one in 10 jobs in the US economy."
Video: CNBC's experts analyze the Thursday job numbers
So while the Big Three may escape more job cuts before the end of the year, others won't be so lucky.
"This is not going to be mild," Karl says. "It's going to be severe, more like 1974, '75 and into the '82 period."
Both employment numbers and the stock market probably will lead the way out of the worst of the recession in the second quarter, Karl adds.
Investors will be watching President-elect Barack Obama for specific indications of how his administration plans to handle the economic crisis. There's some concern over whether he plans to follow through on campaign promises to hit higher wage earners with tax increases, which some economists say will be detrimental to a recovery.
"There are a lot of question marks. This seems to be an administration that wants this economy to be picking up as quickly as possible, wants jobs, and the only way you're going to do that is to try to get the economy started on all cylinders," Krosby says. "The tax hikes at this point would be a serious mistake."
The Obama administration's plans for the economy will be especially important to the hundreds of thousands who will lose their jobs during the holiday season.
"We've seen the tip of the iceberg and we're now looking into the dark waters below and seeing it's a pretty big iceberg," Nomura's Ressler says. "I think we're going to see many more months of job losses, probably running up to a few million more."For more stories from CNBC, go to cnbc.com.

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(Note: This is my post from smbplans.com, where I posted it yesterday. I was asked to repost it here.)
Here's another good question I received from my Ask-me form on my Timberry.com website:
If I'm trying to build my Twitter presence to support my [omitted] business, who should I follow? How do I find them? How to decide?
I'm happy to answer that one because I think it could be useful to a lot of people starting to look at real-world business use of Twitter. Following in Twitter is important for several reasons:
- Who you follow determines what you see. Your Twitter stream is the collection of tweets from the accounts you follow.
- Who you follow is who you are. Other people can see how you follow. That means they see what you like, believe in, care about, listen to, and so forth. c
- Who you follow is who's likely to follow you back. For most businesses, following is the best way to be followed. About a third of your follows will follow you back — more if your tweets are interesting, less if they aren't.
So, with that as background, here's who I think you should follow for your business twitter account, in order of strategy value:
- Leaders. The influencers you respect, want, and need. The people, businesses, and organizations you'd like to have knowing and liking and trusting you. It's hard to generalize so think strategically for your specific business. For example, a restaurant would want local media, local organizations, hotels, food blogs, night out blogs, restaurant guides, travel guides, reviewers, and local people who comment on restaurants and have followings. The chamber of commerce, restaurant association, chefs' schools, local university groups might be good targets too.
- Media, writers, bloggers, and experts in your field. Authors whose work you like and respect. People who you'd like to see writing about you. Our sample restaurant would look for food, dining, restaurant, travel media.
- Social media stars who turn up in keyword searches. Search the web, search Twitter, using important keywords. The restaurant example might search for #dining, #gourmet, #organic, #vegetarian, #chefs, #fastfood, #slowfood, #meals, for example. And if it is located in Eugene, OR then it would search for #eugene and #oregon too. See who tweets with those hashtags. See what content they tweet. Decide whether you are compatible with them.
- Local organizations, groups, and institutions. The schools, universities, community colleges, public theater, development groups.
- Some general news and bloggers and information sources on idea, places, topics, and people that interest you. This is just because you want to see what they're offering. They're not strategic.
- Friends, family, and compatible business associates.


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Salam all,
First I have an announcement:
If you want to make a visit to my house, you are welcome. You can find me in there anytime. I am not going anywhere; I don't intend to go to anywhere. I am not going to lie and say that I don't like going out and making visits but you are a very dear guest. * If you lied once you can make another lie*.
I am spending my holiday in my house. Don't think it's a boring holiday. I am doing all the sort of things that you do.
I sometime go for a walk. Taking some steps from one room to another. From kitchen to guest room, from bedroom to bathroom, and some time I make progress and go to our backyard just for a walk in the garden. You know walking is a good sport.
There is something you don't know about me; it's how much I love music. I think I have a musician ears. I like music, je l'aime.
It seem like the pilots of the American airplanes heard about my interest in the sound of the warplane and military airplane ( not true) but they really seem like they have an order not to let anyone sleep. I am so sorry for disappointing them. I woke up one day and I found myself in love with the sound they make. It's not like other sounds; these sounds are special and they are a natural sound. They are like bed's song . They are not merely an annoying, ugly, awful, hideous sounds and impossible to hear. They help mothers to hush their babies. They help the community to discover the valuable of silence.
If speech was made from silver, then silent is made from gold.
I am not a bookish girl; I never will be. But the situation in Mosul gave me an unwanted present. It's a space time. Therefore I found myself ending reading one book and start to read another. I don't know why I didn't do that ages ago!! Reading is really amusing and a useful habit. I read a police story written by Agatha Kristy. And I read two books of Harry Potter's series and some other stories and useful books. Reading a book is much easier than writing a book, don't you think?
I am still holding tightly what hope I have remaining especially after I survived last night.
At about 1 A.M I went out of my room. I was half asleep and my eyes were nearly closed and there was creature with green evil eyes looking at me. It seemed like it had an invitation to enter my room. It was walking towards me and my room when my brain finally receives a call that this creature is a cat.
"CAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!!!", I shouted loudly and pushed my way back into my room and closed the door behind me and I began to scream and yell for help. " There is a cat in the house!", I shouted and Najma (My sister who knows very well how much I hate cats and how much I am afraid from the sight of them) woke up my father and told him the story.
My father went upstairs where my room is and he saw the cat running from the warehouse's window. He told me that the cat left and that I am safe now, but I insisted that he walk downstairs with me hand-in-hand. My father was very furious and he said to me "You are lucky, the cat didn't eat you".
I don't expect him to be proud of my brave behavior because I was really shaking and full of fears. Anyway, I survived and the cat didn't eat me.
Najma as usual didn't stop giggling at me. Hmm, I miss the old times when I was the brave girl and she was the one who don't have the courage to enter the kitchen without the company of someone. I invented the story that there is a ghost named Shahrurah living in the kitchen and since then, she didn't enter the kitchen alone.
I don't know what the reason that makes the people here feel bored and wishing that they could leave Iraq. Najma, for example, is reading a book called Faster Than The Speed of Light and she is reading something about transport across time !! (I told you she is weird, But you didn't listen!) She wants to live the future without living the present!! *yuk*
Why did anybody want to live in the future since everything is going to worse? why does anybody want to live another second, another hour, and another day?
Who said she will find herself in the future anyway? Who said she will be alive? Who said there will be a life?
It's very difficult to understand the incentives and the reasons that make her think that there will be a better future.
Your friend from present,
H.N.K (The survivor)


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Londoners want their next Mayor to focus on creating jobs as the capital continues to suffer high unemployment, according to a poll published today by the professional social network LinkedIn in conjunction with The Huffington Post.
35% felt that job creation was the most important factor in supporting London businesses, but among the under-30s that figure rose to 49% - an indication of the massive youth unemployment crisis facing the next Mayor.
The poll findings come as it's revealed that Britain is back in recession, with recent figures showing that London has the second highest unemployment rate of any British region.
The poll also revealed that improvements to transport links and entrepreneurial support were of equal importance to voters, with each receiving 19% of the votes respectively. A further 14% of voters felt that crime and security should be the next mayor's priority, whilst the remaining 12% believed infrastructure should be the focus of our next mayor's efforts.
HuffPost put the poll findings to the candidates and asked them - what will they do about London's jobs crisis?
Current Mayor and Tory candidate Boris Johnson told us: "We're making the case now to central government for more funding. I'm making the argument to the Treasury that a pound spent in Croydon is far more of value to the country than a pound spent in Strathclyde. You will generate jobs in Strathclyde far more effectively if you invest in parts of London. There's amazing opportunity to take London forward, but I don't want to go back to the tired-out policies of the past. We want to keep going with our apprenticeships scheme, to expand it and recruit more businesses into that scheme. They will get great value for money from their apprentices."
His main rival Ken Livingstone told us he'd focus on job creation through housebuilding: "Two thirds of all the jobs lost in London are in construction. I'm going to start a house-building programme, accessing pension funds, aimed at building at least 35,000 homes a year, hopefully 50,000 a year in a decade."
Brian Paddick, Liberal Democrat mayoral candidate, told us: "We want to not only encourage existing lenders to lend to small and medium sized enterprises, but also to have a fund set up by the Mayor to lend, for example, to young people who have great business plans but no track record."
Londoners go to the polls next Thursday, 3rd of May, to elect a Mayor plus members of the London Assembly. Current polling suggests Boris Johnson has a small lead of two points over Ken Livingstone - within the pollsters' margin of error. The race, in effect is too close to call.
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A framework for WebProgramming.
- version
2.1.3 (2006-11-17)
- licence
OSI approved licence - open source. (See http://sourceforge.net/projects/spyce/files/spyce/ )
- platforms
- Spyce should work on most platforms.
- Python versions
- 2.3 or later.
Deployment Platforms
- Integrated with Apache using mod_python or with any Web server using CGI.
- With CGI, the lifespan of a program is determined by the Web server, but mod_python should provide long-lived processes.
The deployment of applications using CGI is usually permitted in all but the most restrictive hosting environments. The use of mod_python may be more appropriate to in-house deployments or more comprehensive hosting environments.
Development Interfaces
- Python code inside HTML documents - comparable to ASP, JSP and PHP.
- Spyce modules can be written in Python to provide extra functionality.
Environment Access
- Access to resources is primarily done using the Python module system and other general environment access techniques.
Session, Identification and Authentication
- Support for sessions which identify users is included, currently only with filesystem support for stored session information, although SQL-based storage seems to be planned.
- No explicit authentication support seems to be included.
Persistence Support
- Apart from session information, no persistence mechanisms are included.
Presentation Support
- The embedded Python code concept gives a certain flexibility in presentation.
- The Cheetah templating system is explicitly supported through a Spyce module.
Other presentation systems could presumably be used instead, given the ability to use other Python modules in the framework.
Spyce addresses many areas of interest to Web application developers within a widely-known *SP paradigm: sessions, pooled objects, templating, and so on. Some novel features are also supported: automatons, for example, which attempt to encapsulate multi-stage transactions (or "application flows" as the documentation calls them). However, by design, Spyce does not attempt to provide everything - it aims to do dynamic Web content generation well and integrate with other things easily (see http://spyce.sourceforge.net/). Moreover, it can also be used as a standalone processing tool completely outside a Web application environment. -- PaulBoddie


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It's Tuesday without Dorie this week. Elizabeth of Cake or Death? decided on Apple-Apple Bread Pudding and although the recipe looks delicious and we like bread pudding, it just didn't fit in with our menu this week. Instead I have these simple sugar cookies which my son claims are his favorite cookie (but he says that about a lot of things, especially when he is hungry). These cookies have a crispy outer shell and a soft, almost creamy center, with just a whisper of cinnamon. You can easily adjust the amount of cinnamon to taste, or add similar spices that you have on hand. This very quick and easy recipe comes from an older edition of The Joy of Cooking. They are the perfect thing to throw together when you need a quick sweet, but I definitely remember spending many rainy afternoons in the kitchen when my kids were younger, watching them have tons of fun rolling the dough in a big bowl of sugar.
Sugar Drop Cookies
Joy of cooking
1 cup sugar
3/4 vegtable oil
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 1/2 cups flour
1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
3/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
granulated sugar, for rolling
Pre heat the oven to 375F
In the bowl of a stand mixer combine the sugar and oil mix well. Add the vanilla and eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add the dry ingredients all at once and beat until well mixed. Shape dough in 1 inch balls and roll into granulated sugar. Place them on a baking sheet about 1 inch apart. Bake 10-12 minutes. Don't over bake- the cookies will not be brown when they are done. Makes 4-5 dozen cookies.
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2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt (scant)
1/8 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
1 cup sweetened flaked coconut
3/4 cup unsalted butter, softened, divided use
1/2 cup granulated sugar
2 teaspoons minced ginger root
2 tablespoons Malibu Banana Rum
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon coconut extract
3 large eggs
1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
2 cups coarsely chopped fresh pineapple
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
In a medium sized mixing bowl, sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and nutmeg. Stir coconut into flour.
In a large mixing bowl, using an electric mixer on medium speed, beat together 1/2 cup butter, granulated sugar, ginger, rum, vanilla extract, and coconut extract, until creamy, about 1 minute. Beat in eggs, gradually, until combined.
Gradually beat in flour mixture, until combined.
Melt the additional 1/4 cup butter in a 10-inch round or square cast iron skillet, over medium high heat. Stir in brown sugar and pineapple, and cook mixture for 10-12 minutes, stirring frequently, until pineapple is softened, and mixture is syrupy.
Place heaping spoonfuls of the cake batter over pineapple mixture, and smooth with a rubber spatula.
Bake at 375 degrees F, for 35-40 minutes, or until deep golden brown. Cool cake for 10 minutes on a wire rack; run a knife around outside edges, and invert onto serving dish.
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Incredible Technologies has announced that their latest game, Silver Strike LIVE begins shipping next Monday. If you missed out on the details regarding this new title, you can find out more by clicking here. For a quick recap, the new version of SS uses more online features and the game has a large number of customization options. IT says that they have already sold over 3000 updates of the title, which goes to show the strength that the series carries at locations which carry a Silver Strike already as numbers that high before the game is available is quite impressive for coin-op. I was able to play the game at IAAPA and it looked pretty slick although the online features weren't available at the time. For more details, check out the press release below.
Silver Strike LIVE to Ship Next Week – 3,000+ Updates Already Sold
Incredible Technologies Urges Operators to Order Now
(February 10, 2010 – Arlington Heights, IL) With players from coast to coast anxiously anticipating the next generation of video bowling – Silver Strike LIVE – Incredible Technologies announced today that operators still have time to get their orders in to ensure inclusion in the first shipment.
Silver Strike LIVE updates will start shipping the week of February 15 directly from IT at no money down and 0% interest for 12 months. Operators should call the IT Sales Hotline at 800.262.0323 x 106 for immediate service.
"The response to SS LIVE has exceeded our greatest expectations," said senior VP of sales Don Pesceone. "SS LIVE's unique features and game play truly resonate with players. Don't take the chance of losing a location over an inexpensive update that costs less than a dollar a day."
Silver Strike LIVE's success lies in the tried and true formula of empowering players and connecting them more closely to the game with live competitive play.
"We understand what motivates and appeals to men and women when it comes to out-of-home entertainment," Pesceone said. "And we're giving it to them in spades with SS LIVE. This game will be the first mega-hit of 2010."
Besides updates, SS LIVE Showpiece cabinets are also available. Operators who purchase a kit through distribution or direct from IT will receive a $200 discount toward the purchase of a Silver Strike LIVE Showpiece transfer cabinet.
For more information and to view the new Silver Strike LIVE trailer, visit the game's official website at www.silverstrikebowling.com.


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"Rob's Home" - An Example of the approach that I am looking for in the first assignment of Business and the Natural Step
Introduction - Most of us take our home for granted. It's a place that we eat and sleep in. But our home is also the most important system that we can control. What do I mean by the term system? Systems have flows - things come in – we do stuff with it - and then they go out. There are costs attached to the inputs, the internal processes and the waste. We go out to earn money to pay for many of these aspects of out home process. If we can reduce these costs and prevent new costs from hitting us in the future, we will have more freedom about how we earn a living. Maybe even more time to do other things like have a good marriage, raise our kids well and have fun. What a concept! Being the centre of most of our spending it is also the place where we can allocate our money to change how our suppliers work and hence maybe change the world of business.
So this is why we are doing this exercise – to see in our own lives how thinking in a system way and using the tools of the Natural Step, we can have a better life ourselves and change business.
Transportation – We live in the country and this is where I am the least happy about how I live. When we lived in town we had one car and did about 12,000 km a year. Now we have two cars and drive about 60,000 km a year. I have to admit to being a bit stumped. My real choice is to get out my bike for runs into town. I would get fit as a by product as well. We could have one car at a pinch which would be a huge savings. But at the moment the give up in convenience is too great for me. I bet many of you feel the same. I have thought about cabs as an alternative to a second car. It costs about $11.00 each way by Cab into town or say $25 return. Say 250 trips a year this is $6,250 and is much more than running the second car that I own clear and which costs me directly about $2,000 a year (gas about $500, insurance about $800, repairs about $500) So cabs are out. So I will hang onto my bike or consider a small motor bike a plan B. I would save about $2000 with my bike and over time close to that on a small motor bike.
Both our cars are small a 97 Civic and a 03 CRV. They use regular gas and get good mileage compared to larger cars. I can get to Moncton and back on one tank easily. Our next car will likely be a hybrid – especially if there is tax credit that gets the price down to the same as a conventional car. It is a big premium right now that does not pay at current gas process. But will if they go much higher. Running a car with very low mileage is perhaps the best strategy for PEI rural residents. In the end, biking over distance in February is a desperate measure. But if I can get 60 km to the litre then this makes more sense. We can lobby the government to incent high performance cars.
Are there wasteful trips? Yes – Maybe if I logged them and planed my day better with my wife we might cut 20% of our trips out. This then looks like a good avenue to approach.
Energy – Our most important flow in our house is energy for heat. We have the main house, a guest house and a granny flat. In all we have nearly 5,000 square feet to heat. Our monthly oil bill is $490 a month or $5,880 a year. This is our largest expense by far. We heat by oil. My objective is to cut this bill by 50% by the end of next year. My main strategy will be to replace much of the heat source from oil to wood from our own property. The direct cost to me is small consisting of my chain saw, some gas and the rental of a wood splitter. Most the effort is in labour which I provide. I plan to put the fire on in the afternoon and leave it until we go to bed. The stoves will have self turning fans which helps to spread the heat around the house. This I hope will cover the really cold part of the time and reduce then need for the furnace to go on at night. During the day the house is situated to get most of the sun. All the main windows face south. We tend to get up to about 65 without any heat just from the sun on a bright day.
Since I first wrote this I have installed a wood boiler - here is the business case
In addition we are changing our internal processes. We have put in a digital thermostat for the downstairs. We have a separate system upstairs. I find this a huge help. It automatically turns down the heat to about 60 downstairs at night when we are not there and turns it up to 67 in the day. We have got used to living in the mid 60's which also reduces the load. Wearing a sweater helps as well.
We have worked hard to reduce waste. We have insulated the roof and put in new windows upstairs. We will be sealing the open electric plugs – you can get cheap plug blockers for cents. Next year we will replace the downstairs windows. Our old windows are 30 years old and leak a lot. We will have to pay for all of this. Again this is where the government can help by setting up incentives to reduce waste by supporting more insulation, better windows, better light bulbs etc.
On the electricity front we buy the wind power electricity from Maritime Electric. This is our best way to have a better source of electricity. The more of us that do this, the more we attract more wind to PEI. This I think is the big community goal for us all. If we can raise the acceptance of wind, then we have a chance of breaking free from oil and nuclear based electricity on PEI. In effect we will break free from the inevitable rise in cost of carbon based energy. The stakes for us all especially you who are younger are huge.
Our main house bill is about $80 a month. Our concessions to better internal process has been in the laundry area. We have front loading low water, low energy use washing machine and I the summer we mainly dry on the line. Our biggest drain is our computer network and our deep freeze Waste is a big issue that I am only just beginning to understand. I have not replaced many conventional bulbs with long life low wattage bulbs. I have not explored yet how best to run my PC network at night on a lower usage. Any advice for you? Having a good measurement system that would enable me to see where my biggest usage and loss would be best. All the good writers say that the key is to reduce consumption in this area.
Food – We spend a lot on food, household supplies and wine. I hesitate to reveal how much. Let's just say it is much more than we should. What we don't do much anymore though is to buy much prepared or packaged food. Most food in a supermarket has traveled at least 1,000 miles. Think of the energy costs!
We cook most of our meals from scratch. I think that we therefore avoid many of the potential health risks and we avoid supporting much of the factory food system. We eat better in both ways. Importantly, I think, we make a point of buying as much as we can from local sources. My plan is to buy everything that is possible locally. Like wind power, creating local markets for food is I think a key to a new future for agriculture. Our farmers who grow one crop for sale to the big processors or the supermarkets are having a terrible time. They are part of a process that is damaging our land and our natural systems. I now believe that the answer is not to attack our farmers but to change our buying habits. When we create a new market, they can switch.
This is an important insight. We can feel powerless. But as consumers we have the power of choice. When we choose wind and local food we create change.
What we buy drives a huge waste stream. We go through our 5-9 blue bags a month. We have two filled waste watch bins as well. I think that the next step is to push back at the packaging as consumers. Until now I was not very aware. But now pulling the bins up the 100 yard long drive way and loading the car with all our blue bags has made me very aware of how much waste we create. The state will have to help. One way will be to tax bad packaging and incent good packaging. I get so annoyed over the can ban debate – we do not need cans. We won't get them anyway. We will get big plastic bottles that have been packed in Ontario and will end up not being recycled because we don't have enough volume.
Companies that pack well will get my consumer dollar.
Business is the most powerful process in our world toady. As consumers, we have the power, if we get together, to change how business affects us. Note how the food companies are reacting to get transfats out of their food. On our own we are powerless – we take what they offer. But as an informed group, we have the purchasing power to help them change. We will see how this process helped many of the early adopters of the Natural Step change.
Real power is authentic. It must come from us. It is not a powerful position to rage about how bad business is without changing what we do at home in our own lives. Hence this exercise.


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The speakers for Day 1 of the Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans included luminaries such as Mike Huckabee, Michael Williams, and Ted Cruz, along with our own Erick Erickson. I'll confine my remarks to the presidential candidates.
Newt Gingrich
Newt has a vision and a plan that appeal to this fiscal conservative. President Gingrich would hit the ground running in his first week with a series of executive orders designed to roll back the Leftist domination of the last 80 years. In particular, he proposes to eliminate all of the "czars" and to fight the tyranny of the judicial branch by eliminating federal judgeships.
Newt understands that the only way out of our country's fiscal abyss is to unleash the incredible potential of the American economy. His plan:
- No tax increases
- Set the tax rate on capital gains to zero
- 12.5% corporate tax rate
- 100% expensing for new capital equipment
- Permanently abolish the death tax
Newt would also move to repeal Sarbanes-Oxley and Dodd-Frank, two measures which unnecessarily hobble our economy. He'd replace the EPA with the Environmental Solutions Agency, dedicated to finding workable solutions rather than erecting roadblocks.
It would work. But it's what Newt didn't say that troubles me, and would keep me from enthusiastically supporting him as a candidate.
Newt's embrace of ethanol subsidies may help his chances in Iowa, but it leaves me cold. I'm not sure where he stands on Climate Change.
Then there's the matter of his disappearing campaign staff. The first test of a presidential candidate is his ability to manage a campaign. If you can't sustain the loyalty and enthusiasm of paid staff, it raises serious questions about how you'd perform in office.
I want to like Newt, I really do. He's a deep thinker, a philosopher and historian. We'll see how this plays out.
Thad McCotter
Rep. McCotter is on the straw poll ballot. Notable quote: "The era of Big Government is not over, it is imploding."
My reaction? Too cerebral. I see why Dennis Miller likes him.
Gary Johnson
The former governor of New Mexico was a successful entrepreneur and job creator before selling his company and entering politics. Of particular note was his use of the veto – some 750 times, 1/3 of those against Republican bills.
Johnson lost me on his endorsement of the Fair Tax and his push for legalized marijuana. My fear is that legalizing dope would do little to stem the violence on the border, but it would make Americans a lot less concerned about the problem.
More to come in Day 2: Herman Cain, Michele Bachmann, Ron Paul and Rick Santorum. Stay tuned.
Cross-posted at stevemaley.com.


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Kobe Bryant gets 18th career triple-double as Lakers down Rockets
LOS ANGELES -- After just two practices and two games together, Kobe Bryant already can see Mike D'Antoni's ideas and schemes improving the Los Angeles Lakers.
Although a triple-double isn't usually part of Bryant's game plan, he happily picked it up along with another win for a team that has been revitalized before their new coach has even taken the court.
Bryant had 22 points, 11 rebounds and 11 assists for his 18th career triple-double, and the Lakers ran past the Houston Rockets 119-108 Sunday night for their fourth victory in five games since firing coach Mike Brown.
Dwight Howard had 28 points and 13 rebounds, and Pau Gasol scored his 15,000th career point among his 17 as the Lakers returned to .500 by running away from their second straight opponent since D'Antoni took over their practices. Although D'Antoni and his surgically replaced knee haven't even appeared on Los Angeles' bench yet, his new team is already playing with passion and fluidity it hadn't showed during a miserable start to the season.
"We're just picking apart the defense," said Bryant, who also had three of Los Angeles' 10 steals. "We're putting the defense in predicaments where they have to choose, and we're making them pay."
D'Antoni watched his second straight game from the Lakers' locker room while interim coach Bernie Bickerstaff ran the bench. D'Antoni decided earlier Sunday to delay his debut, giving him at least a few more days to recover from surgery.
Bickerstaff improved to 4-1 while filling in for Brown and D'Antoni, who announced the longtime NBA coach and executive will remain on his staff -- as long as the Lakers beat Houston, D'Antoni joked.
Bickerstaff's job is secure after the Lakers ran away from the Rockets in the second half. From Bryant's sharp passes to Howard's rim-rocking, two-handed slams, Los Angeles played with flair, even while point guard Steve Nash missed his eighth straight game with a small fracture in his leg.
"Every day, there's a little more" of D'Antoni's system in the Lakers, Bickerstaff said. "It's best to do a few things well and get it down, because all of those things, they have options off them."
The Lakers already are running a significant portion of D'Antoni's playbook, and it showed in a second straight free-flowing victory for a team that followed an 0-8 preseason with a 1-4 start, leading to Brown's dismissal just nine days ago. The Lakers scored 114 points while beating Phoenix two days ago.
Chandler Parsons scored 24 points and James Harden had 20 for the Rockets, who have lost six of eight. Coach Kevin McHale missed his fourth straight game during a leave of absence to deal with a family matter.
"It's tough, man. That's our leader," Parsons said. "We can't do much except pray for his family and him, and hope he comes back soon. We love playing for him. But at the same time, Coach (Kelvin) Sampson has done a good job. We have the same offense, same system, same principles on defense. So it's not like we're a different team. We still need to be playing a lot better, so there's no excuse."
Darius Morris scored a career-high 12 points for the Lakers while doing a decent defensive job on Jeremy Lin, who had 10 assists but just five points on 2-of-9 shooting. Lin visited with D'Antoni after the game, recalling their remarkable few months together last season in New York.
"He's the ultimate players' coach, very similar to Coach McHale," Lin said. "I think he just gets it. He knows how to get the most out of his players. They'll be just fine. What you saw tonight, they'll probably be able to do pretty consistently, in terms of moving the ball and spacing. And with Dwight Howard down low, it's tough because he has that whole key to roam in."
With an offensive rebound with 5½ minutes to play, Bryant recorded his first triple-double since Nov. 3, 2010, at Sacramento. The NBA's fifth-leading career scorer was in top form, breaking down defenders and hitting acrobatic shots with the flair of his best games.
But Bryant doesn't have to win games by himself, and the rest of the Lakers were sharp as well. Howard attacked the basket relentlessly while his teammates set him up for high-percentage shots, and Metta World Peace contributed 15 points.
With a smooth jumper in the second half, Gasol became the 10th foreign-born player and the first Spaniard to score 15,000 NBA points. The four-time All-Star has won two titles with the Lakers, and the Staples Center fans gave him an ovation when his achievement was announced.
"I think it's something to be proud of," said Gasol, who joins a list of foreign-born scorers including Nash, Hakeem Olajuwon, Dirk Nowitzki and Dominique Wilkins. "I'm happy to reach this milestone, but I want to continue to be as productive as I've been throughout my career."
Game notes
Houston concludes its three-game trip Monday at Utah. ... Shortly after D'Antoni confirmed Bickerstaff is staying with the team, the Lakers formally announced Dan D'Antoni will join the staff as an assistant. Mike D'Antoni's older brother has been in practice with the Lakers since Thursday. ... Houston C Omer Asik left the game in the first half with a cut over his right eye, but returned for the second half after getting five stitches.
Regular Season Series
LAL lead 1-0
Game Information
- Referees:
- Zach Zarba
- Kane Fitzgerald
- J.T. Orr
2023-24 Southwest Standings
Team | W | L | PCT | GB | STRK |
New Orleans | 33 | 22 | .600 | - | W3 |
Dallas | 32 | 23 | .582 | 1 | W6 |
Houston | 24 | 30 | .444 | 8.5 | L1 |
Memphis | 20 | 36 | .357 | 13.5 | W2 |
San Antonio | 11 | 44 | .200 | 22 | L1 |
2023-24 Pacific Standings
Team | W | L | PCT | GB | STRK |
LA Clippers | 36 | 17 | .679 | - | W1 |
Phoenix | 33 | 22 | .600 | 4 | W2 |
Sacramento | 31 | 23 | .574 | 5.5 | W1 |
LA Lakers | 30 | 26 | .536 | 7.5 | W3 |
Golden State | 27 | 26 | .509 | 9 | W1 |


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"Countryside Beauty" PDF sewing pattern to make a very special outfit to fit 10" Iplehouse BID and similar sized dolls like Dianna Effner Boneka and Tonner Patsy.
A beautiful concept for your 10" doll which offers a really wide scope for fabric combinations.
In this pattern I give away my seamstress secrets so that people who do sewing for a living can achieve a perfect balance between stunning quality and speed and thus increase their hourly income.
As you can see in the examples, you can come up with really interesting color arrays.
The pattern includes detailed step by step instructions with photo illustrations.
With this pattern you can make:
- Dress
- Pinafore
- Hat
- Arm warmers
- Footed stockings
- Footless stockings
The price includes the pattern only. No doll or clothes. This is a digital PDF download, it is not a printed copy. If you need a printed copy, please let me know and I will make it available for you.
I am happy to answer any questions you may have if you need help with making this outfit. Thank you.


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18-Minutes Of 'ParaNorman' B-Roll Footage Shows Us How A Stop-Motion Animated Movie Is Created
Movie studios release b-roll footage for tv producers to splice in between their 30 second junket interview clip on the local morning show (or other such productions). We often post this unedited footage on the site because we love the brief glimpses it gives us at the creation of a movie.
After the jump you'll fine 18 minutes of behind the scenes b-roll footage from LAIKA's new stop-motion animated feature film ParaNorman. This includes a look at all aspects of the production, including how Laika used color 3D printers to create the facial animations. Stop-Motion Animation is the most intimately handcrafted flavor of filmmaking. Even after knowing how these movies get made, you probably have no idea of just how much time it takes to create the puppets, the costumes, the sets, never-mind animate each scene by hand. Be warned that some of the footage contains no sound. Enjoy!
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In the past four months, two foreign terrorist plots fizzled. The Christmas Day undie-bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmuttalab, failed to detonate plastic explosives hidden in his underwear while on board Northwest Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit. This past weekend, Faisal Shahzad drove an SUV into Times Square that contained a homemade incendiary device composed of the wrong type of fertilizer, faulty wiring, and propane tanks that were not fully open. It smoked, but did not go boom. Though the mass murderers of 9/11 pulled off a complicated operation that changed the world—and their ideological comrades have managed successful but smaller operations in Lisbon, Mumbai, London, and Bali—the recent events prompt a glib question: are most terrorists incompetent?
Richard Reid failed to ignite his shoe bomb in 2001. Last year, Najibullah Zazi was nabbed with two others for plotting to set off suicide bombs in the New York City subway. Zazi, who had received training in an al Qaeda camp in Waziristan, aroused suspicions in part by buying large amounts of hydrogen peroxide and acetone products from beauty supply stores in the Denver area. Federal agents were on his trail before he was close to mounting the operation and arrested him. At the end of last year, five Northern Virginia men were arrested in Pakistan and charged with plotting to attack a Pakistani nuclear plant, an air base in Afghanistan, and US targets. They were caught partly because after they left the United States without telling their parents, an American-Islamic group placed their families in contact with the FBI and that led to an international missing persons case. Shahzad seems to fit into a line of losers.
Does that mean anything? I asked a few terrorism experts to comment on what seems to be a trend of inept terrorists. Is a dumb terrorist the norm? And are their mistakes the result of the pressure placed upon terrorist outfits by US government actions?
Referring to the Christmas Day would-be bomber and the failed Times Square attack, Bruce Hoffman, a Georgetown University professor who has studied terrorism and insurgency for more than three decades, says in an email,
Both plots were rushed and and perhaps fall into the "opportunism" category rather than 9/11. A returning American citizen presents an opportunity to a [terrorism] group that very hastily tries to prep him/them. Or the individual returns and is inspired to do something/anything no matter half-baked with his mates. [Anwar] al-Awlaki [the radical imam in Yemen] hits pay dirt with the radicalization of Abdulmuttalab, and they rush [that operation] to coincide with Xmas Day. Being rushed, though, may indeed also be a reflection of our success.
Neil Livingstone, the CEO of Executive Action, which bills itself as a "private CIA," notes that it's not easy to mount these sorts of attacks:
Building bombs and incendiaries is a difficult task, especially with respect to the detonator. In other words, how do you make a complex device go off all at once? We've tried to blow up vehicles where the detonator went off but the explosive did not. That said, it doesn't seem that either of the last two would-be bombers was very well trained. In the case of the Times Square plot, the device was an incendiary, not a bomb. Thus, it would have had a loud explosion, which would have shattered windows throughout Times Square, with shards of glass falling on the people below, but it would not have cut down hundreds, as it would have if it had been a bomb with lots of shrapnel. Also, you need to remember we're dealing with the Pakistani Taliban and not al Qaeda, which has much more experience conducting foreign operations far from their bases of activity.
But Livingstone adds that the Pakistani Taliban—presuming they were indeed behind the failed New York City attack—"will get better and learn from their mistakes, and it's probably only a matter of time before they get one of these attacks right."
Paul Pillar, who spent nearly 30 years in the CIA, including a stint as National Intelligence Officer for the Near East and South Asia, cautions not to draw too much from these recent failures:
Although there is some validity to the idea that the more pressure a terrorist group is under the less likely it can pull off a sophisticated and well-executed operation, and thus to the corollary that a pressured group is less likely to be using sophisticated operatives, I would be cautious for three reasons about running very far with this idea:
First, terrorists, like the population as a whole, run the gamut from dumb to very smart. Any generalizations about this particular dimension are thus apt to be hazardous.
Second, It is hazardous to extrapolate a larger trend from a couple of incidents that happen to be recent. The next couple of incidents could be much different.
Third and most fundamentally, terrorist operations are not like, say, college admissions, where a school has a fixed number of slots, it fills those slots with the smartest applicants, and thus if the school's recruitment efforts are lousy and do not yield a large and high-quality applicant pool, the pool of admitted students is not likely to be of high quality either. Terrorist groups do not have a fixed program of operations and then try to find the most capable people to conduct them. Several of the most recent incidents and people (such as [alleged Ft. Hood shooter Nidal] Hasan, Zasi, the Northern Virginia five) show most of the initiative coming from the individual volunteer. Terrorist groups are presented with targets of opportunity in which the target consists both of the operation and the volunteer who would carry it out.
In other words, terrorist outfits organize two types of operations: those they meticulously plan and to which they devote their best resources, and those they take a flyer on. The recent miscues have been the latter. And those are likely to continue—with the possibility of success. What's perhaps harder to know is whether al Qaeda is in the position to mount the more serious and extensive operations, which demand competent, intelligent, and well-trained operatives.
Tom Fuentes, a former FBI assistant director, says that the Obama's administration approach to terrorism has caused al Qaeda and other extremist groups to resort to not-so-well-organized operations. By emphasizing "law enforcement cooperation instead of brute military force," Fuentes maintains, Obama has enhanced international counterterrorism cooperation "significantly"—and that has made it tougher for the senior leaders of al Qaeda and other like-minded outfits to operate. "But," he adds, "it's going to be very difficult to prevent an individual or small group from taking personal initiative." Even if these people are not so bright.


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Probation dropped against tanned NJ mom
May 4, 2012, 7:11 PM
Associated Press
(AP) – The New Jersey mom accused of taking her young daughter into a tanning booth is no longer on probation in a separate case.
Officials at the Superior Court in Camden County said Friday that Patricia Krentcil's probation, which dated from a 1999 arrest, has been terminated. Sgt. Christina DeCristofor of the Camden County Prosecutor's Office said she was not sure why it had ended, though she said that happens frequently in older cases.
Neither Krentcil nor defense lawyer John Caruso immediately returned messages from The Associated Press.
Krentcil, 44, was charged last month in Essex County with child endangerment. Police said the woman, whose skin is bronze-colored from her regular tanning salon visits, took her daughter into a tanning booth last month. The girl was 5 at the time but has since turned 6.
Police said they were alerted by the kindergartener's school in Nutley because the girl was in pain from a sunburn.
Krentcil, who has pleaded not guilty, said her daughter's burn came from the sun on an unusually warm April day and that she would never take the girl into a tanning booth.
It's against New Jersey law for anyone under 14 to use a tanning booth.
The arrest in northern New Jersey got the attention of authorities in Camden County. That's where Krentcil was sentenced to five years' probation in 1999 for credit card theft, forgery and theft for writing bad checks. In 2001, a bench warrant was issued for her failure to appear at a probation hearing.
With probation being terminated, though, she's out of any legal trouble in Camden County.
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Cryptocurrency exchanges Bitfinex and Ethfinex now support trading for all six of the market's major stablecoins. Adding to its support for MakerDao's Dai and Tether's USDT, the sister platforms recently listed USD Coin (USDC), TrueUSD (TUSD), Paxos Standard Token (PAX) and Gemini USD (GUSD). All stablecoins available on the exchanges will be traded against the U.S. dollar.
Launched in 2018, Ethfinex is Bitfinex's ERC-20 exchange arm. Built for trading Ethereum tokens, the exchange is centralized at the moment, but the team plans to transform it into a decentralized exchange in the future.
Bitfinex made the announcement in a December 4, 2018, blog post stating:
"From today, customers of Bitfinex and Ethfinex will be able to trade all six major stablecoins on both exchanges. At Bitfinex and Ethfinex, we're dedicated to providing a high quality, unbiased meeting place for every ecosystem and customer," the post reads.
Bitfinex's promise to remain "unbiased" is notable given the exchange's intrinsic ties to Tether. Both Bitfinex and Tether share a CEO, and the interoperations between both entities, which critics have regarded as opaque, have called Tether's credibility into question, paving the way for the competing projects that Bitfinex has just listed.
One of the biggest issues stemming from the cryptocurrency space is volatility. Many digital assets are known for experiencing wild price swings that can cause traders to incur unexpected and swift losses.
Stablecoins are considered to be a viable solution to this volatility. These currencies are typically tied to varying forms of fiat, such as USD, the euro or the yen, lessening the chances of price swings and giving investors more security with their trades. Others, like Dai, are collateralized using cryptocurrencies, namely ether.
Bitfinex and Ethfinex were the first digital currency exchanges to introduce their customers to the Dai, an Ethereum-based stablecoin. The addition of the four new coins follows Bitfinex rolling out USD and euro fiat pairs for Tether in November of this year.
Tether, the oldest and most popular of the stablecoins the two exchanges offer, was launched in 2014. Allegedly tied to USD, it was the only stablecoin available to crypto traders until this year, when the market saw the addition of several new stablecoins that brought Tether's competition to higher ground.
At press time, both deposits and withdrawals for these six coins are reserved only for verified traders across both platforms, though trading itself remains unaffected by a customer's verification status.
Stablecoins have seen increased exchange and platform adoption in the tail end of 2018. Cryptocurrency exchange Binance, for example, recently added Paxos as a base currency to its trading platform, and the exchange also announced support for USDC in mid-November. Bitcoin payment platform BitPay recently added PAX to its system, allowing employers and employees alike to both send and receive payments in the stablecoin.
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As if we don't have enough terrestrial examples of potential exposure to accidental radioactivity release to worry about (Cherobyl, Fukushima, Three Mile Island) we also need to be looking up for other hazards. Throughout the history of US and Soviet space exploration, these countries have sent multiple devices into space (or attempted to send them into space) that were equipped with one type of radioactive material or another. Most were launched and performed successfully. Some, however, failed and, as a result, potentially exposed humans to radioactive material through fallout. Here are ten examples of space launches involving radioactive material that did not go as planned.
RORSAT, meaning Radar Ocean Reconnaissance Satellite, is the western term used to describe a series of Soviet Union satellites. These satellites were launched between 1967 and 1988, to monitor NATO and merchant vessels using radar. They were referred to as Cosmos satellites and carried type BES-5 nuclear reactors fueled by uranium-235. For the radar to work efficiently the satellites were placed into low Earth orbit. The plan was for the spacecraft to jettison the reactor into high Earth orbit when the satellites effective life had ended. However, there were several failures.
One such failure was Cosmos 1402. At the end of the satellites intended operational period, the reactor did not separate into high Earth orbit as planned. When the satellite reentered the atmosphere on February 7, 1983, the reactor was the last piece to come home to Earth. It landed somewhere in the South Atlantic Ocean.
The US equivalent to a Soviet Union satellite equipped with a nuclear reactor is the radioisotope thermoelectric generator or RTG. An RTG is a nuclear reactor type electrical generator. The heat released from the radioactive decay of a specified radioactive element in the device is converted into electricity and used for power. Thus, RTGs can be considered as a type of battery, and have been used as power sources in satellites, space probes and other unmanned remote facilities (such as a series of lighthouses built by the former Soviet Union inside the Arctic Circle). RTGs are used where solar cells are not practical and power usage is longer than that which can be provided by fuel cells. A common application of RTGs is as power sources on spacecraft such as Voyager 1, Voyager 2 and Galileo. In addition, RTGs were used to power scientific experiments left on the Moon by the crews of Apollo 12 through 17 (except Apollo 13, as we will see).
RTGs may pose a risk of radioactive contamination: if the container holding the fuel leaks, the radioactive material may contaminate the environment. For spacecraft, the main concern is that if an accident were to occur during launch or a subsequent passage of a spacecraft close to Earth.
One such incident took place on April 21, 1964, when a Transit-5BN-3 navigation satellite failed to reach orbit when launched. The spacecraft burned up over Madagascar and the plutonium fuel in the RTG was injected into the atmosphere over the Southern Atlantic Ocean. Traces of the Plutonium were detected in the atmosphere as a result.
On April 25, 1973, the Soviet Union attempted to launch one of its RORSAT satellites into orbit. However, the launch failed and the on board nuclear reactor plunged into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Japan. Little else is known about this launch except that the USA is reported to have detected radioactivity over the region through air sampling.
The second incident involving a US RTG happened on May 21, 1968, when a Nimbus B-1 weather satellite exploded when the launch vehicle had to be intentionally destroyed and the lift off aborted shortly after launch. This satellite was launched from the Vandenberg Air Force Base. The remains of the satellite and the RTG plunged into the Pacific Ocean off California and, five months later, the RTG and its plutonium dioxide were recovered from the bottom of the Santa Barbara Channel. No radioactive material had been released.
Cosmos 367 was a Soviet RORSAT nuclear-powered satellite launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome. On October 3, 1970, only 110 hours after launch, the satellite failed and had to be moved to a higher orbit. Little else is known about Cosmos 367. It now orbits the Earth at an altitude of 579 miles, and circles the Earth at a speed of 4.4 miles per second. For a really cool real-time satellite tracking, look at where Cosmos 367 is here (those with low internet speeds be warned).
On December 12, 1987, the Soviet Union launched Cosmos 1900, another RORSAT nuclear-powered satellite. By May of 1988, communication had been lost with the satellite and the Soviets told the world it expected the satellite to renter the Earth's orbit sometime in September or October of 1988. On or about September 30, 1988, just before the satellite reentered Earth's atmosphere and burned up, the Soviets shot the reactor core out of the satellite, intended for high Earth orbit. However, the primary booster failed. Fortunately, the backup booster did move the reactor core closer to high Earth orbit, but 50 miles below its intended altitude. The reactor core is still in low Earth orbit and decreases in altitude with each passing year. Someday, it will come down to Earth, somewhere. The Cosmos 1900 reactor core now circles the Earth at an altitude of about 454 miles and speeds along at 16,753 mph. It takes just about 99 minutes to complete one full orbit. Go here if you would like to see its orbit, but for those with slow internet speed, be careful as this is a link to a website.
SNAP-10A was the first, and so far only, known launch of a U.S. nuclear reactor into space (although many radioisotope thermoelectric generators have also been launched). The Systems Nuclear Auxiliary Power Program (SNAP) reactor was developed under the SNAPSHOT program overseen by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.
SNAP-10A was launched from Vandenberg AFB by an ATLAS Agena D rocket, on April 3, 1965, into a low Earth orbit over the Polar Regions. On board was a nuclear electrical source (a nuclear reactor) capable of producing 500 watts of power for up to a year. After only 43 days, an on-board voltage regulator failed, causing the reactor core to be shut down. The reactor is now stuck in a 700-nautical-mile earth orbit where it will stay for an expected duration of 4,000 years.
Making matters worse, in November 1979, an event caused the vehicle to begin shedding pieces. Therefore, a collision has not been ruled out and radioactive debris may have been released.
One of the better known incidents involved the unplanned reentry into Earth's atmosphere of the Cosmos 954 satellite, on January 24, 1978. Partly, this was because, unlike the other reentries, the reactor and radioactivity reentered over land, not the ocean. Soon after Cosmos 954 was launched, it became apparent to US officials that the satellite had not achieved a stable orbit and, in fact, the orbit was decaying – fast. Once it was known that this was a Cosmos satellite and, therefore, there was a nuclear reactor on board, the US went into high alert status, tracking the satellite and trying to calculate when and where it would reenter the Earth's atmosphere and crash (the reactor itself was too large to completely burn up on reentry and was sure to hit the Earth). When the satellite finally came down it did so over sparsely populated Northwest Territories of Canada. The radioactive material was spread over 124,000 square kilometers (47,876 square miles), most of which was recovered by a special and secret US radioactive emergency response team. However, it is possible the reactor core itself is still buried deep below the Arctic permafrost and remains radioactive to this date. Had the satellite made one more orbit, it would have reentered somewhere over the populated East Coast of the USA.
Unknown to many Americans, the Soviet Union was attempting, in secret, to put unmanned rovers onto the moon at the same time the US and Neil Armstrong were landing and walking on the moon. The Lunokhod program was a series of Soviet robotic lunar rovers that were to land on the moon between 1969 and 1977. If not for an accident during the launch, the Soviets would have been on the moon months before the Americans landed. On February 19, 1969, the first Lunokhod rovers were launched. Within a few seconds, the rocket exploded and the rovers were destroyed. On board the rovers were the Cosmos-type nuclear reactors to be used for power. When the rocket exploded, radioactivity was spread over a large area of Russia.
On November 10, 1970, the Soviets were successful when the second Lunokhod vehicle landed on the moon and became the first remote-controlled robotic rover to ever land on another planet or moon. In 2010, the Lunar Reconnaissance orbiter took detailed images of the lunar surface and detected the tracks left behind by the Lunakhod vehicle. Only then, forty years after it touched down on the moon surface, were scientists finally able to determine the final location of the vehicle.
The heroic rescue of the astronauts of the failed moon mission Apollo 13 is well-known. On April 14, 1970 (1970 sure was a bad year for launching stuff into space), on the way to the moon, one of the oxygen tanks exploded, damaging the vehicle. The astronauts, James A. Lovell, John L. "Jack" Swigert and Fred W. Haise were able to circle the moon on April 15, and return safely to Earth on April 17, thanks to their own heroic efforts and those of engineers and scientists back on Earth.
The return to Earth, however, was not intended to take place with the Lunar module still totting the SNAP 27 radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG). This was designed to be left behind on the moon surface to conduct ongoing scientific experiments. As the Lunar module never landed on the moon, the SNAP 27 and its radioactive RTG came back to Earth along with the Apollo 13 astronauts.
The lunar module burned up in Earth's atmosphere on April 17, 1970. It was aimed in the direction of the Pacific Ocean near the Tonga Trench (a 5 mile deep ocean valley) to minimize the potential exposure to radioactivity. As it was designed to do, the RTG and its 3.9 kilograms of radioactive plutonium dioxide survived reentry and plunged into the Tonga Trench. There, it will remain radioactive for the next 2,000 years. Subsequent water testing has shown the RTG is not leaking radioactivity into the ocean.
One unexpected benefit of the Apollo 13 mission was the survival, in an intact condition, of the RTG. The high reentry velocities the Apollo 13 RTG were exposed to demonstrate that the design is sturdy and highly safe.


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Moving to the center is not a two-dimensional process. It has a third dimension — the difference between strength and weakness. In the course of coming in from the cold of his extreme far-left positions, the president looks like a wimp, abandoning his long-held views in the face of electoral defeats, adverse court rulings, recalcitrant Democrats and strong, united Republican opposition.
And wimps don't win.
When Bill Clinton moved to the center, he arrived in triumph. After vanquishing the Republican Congress during the government shutdown of 1995-1996, he agreed to a balanced budget deal with Newt Gingrich and Trent Lott. But it was his deal, along his lines, on his principles. When he signed a welfare reform bill, he did so after beating back and vetoing two Republican bills that coupled reform with harsh cuts in Medicaid. After he got a bill on his own terms, he signed it.
Barack Obama's "compromise" with the Republicans over the Bush tax cuts is no more of a compromise than was the deal Emperor Hirohito cut with Gen. Douglas MacArthur on the deck of the battleship Missouri after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was a surrender, not a compromise. It was submission, not triangulation.
Obama is checkmated as long as Republicans hold firm, challenge him on solid grounds anchored in public opinion and remain united. He can either lose the election of 2012 because he is an obstinate ideologue who won't compromise and won't abandon his socialist principles or he can lose it because he does surrender and is too weak to be president.
He does not have a third option — winning the budget fights and winning re-election as long as the Republicans properly mount their challenge because public opinion — the essential element for victory — is not with him.
— Americans want spending cuts, not tax increases.
— Americans believe that cutting spending is more important even than cutting the deficit (see Rasmussen).
— Americans oppose Obamacare.
— Americans are against letting the EPA impose carbon dioxide restrictions without consulting Congress.
— Americans are against unilateral NLRB action to eliminate the secret ballot in union elections.
— Americans oppose earmarks.
— Americans do not want the FCC to limit or censor talk radio.
These are the grounds for our battles in 2011-2012. It is on this turf that the Republican House majority must fight. The fearful "moderate" Democratic senators will cave in. And then Obama will be forced to surrender because the Force — public opinion — is not with him. You can govern by ignoring what Americans think if you have a majority. But not if you don't.
And with each surrender — over his desire to raise the debt limit without mandated spending cuts, over his support for bailing out states in trouble, and over his demand to raise taxes in the 2012 budget — Obama will get weaker and weaker.
His inability to fight and win the war on terror and his choice to become mired in Afghanistan with no real plan for winning will contribute to the image of weakness.
In 2012, he will face America, denuded of all the programs he passed in 2009-2010, with an economy only slightly improved but with at least 7 percent to 8 percent unemployment, and with a manifest inability to measure up to the job of president.
Most presidents face a challenge of weakness. With Dwight Eisenhower, it was his refusal to stand up to Joe McCarthy. With John Kennedy, it was his inability to pass legislation. With Richard Nixon, it was his inability to get ahead of the Watergate scandal. With Gerald Ford, it was his helplessness in the face of inflation. With Jimmy Carter, it was the hostage crisis. With Ronald Reagan, it was his failure to control the Iran-Contra affair. With George Bush-41, it was his passivity on the economy. With Bill Clinton, it was the flip-flopping early in his presidency. With Barack Obama, it will be his retreat in the face of the Republican counter-attack of 2011.


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Michael Balboni, Former New York State Senator and Founder of RedLand Strategies, Inc. will open the conference agenda at 9:00 a.m. following networking and registration. Mr. Balboni was First Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee and as NYS Senator wrote nearly all of the major laws relating to Homeland Security for New York State.
Closing the conference is Mr. Lester Quintana, Senior Vice President for Consulting Services, Cellucci Associates, Inc. Mr. Quintana is a dynamic high-technology Business Executive with a strategic business and tactical operations background; he has held key positions in the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, and other agencies. He has been engaged in Russia, States of the Former Soviet Union, Kuwait, Iraq, and globally sensitive locations.
The theme of the conference is 'Game Changing Technologies: The Face and Future of Security' and will be discussing developments in biodefense, biometrics including fingerprint, voice and facial recognition, cyber security and other leading edge technologies. Speakers and presenters will discuss how these issues impact individuals, corporations and governments globally.
The one-day agenda will include a financial panel, an industry panel that includes some of the brightest minds within the sector, and presenting companies showcasing their innovative technologies. Attendance to this conference is free to all media, investors and industry service providers.
When /where:
Tuesday, March 11, 2014, The New York Hilton Midtown, New York City (1335 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10019) and Online.
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Agenda:8:00 – 9:00AM | Registration & Networking |
9:00 - 9:20AM | What is the Key to Staying Ahead? |
Featured Speaker: MICHAEL BALBONI, Former New York State Senator; Founder RedLand Strategies, Inc. | |
Full day of speakers and presenting companies followed by: | |
5:30PM | Closing Remarks SPEAKER: LESTER QUINTANA, Cellucci Associates, Inc. |
5:45 – 7:15PM | Cocktail Reception |
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New Presenting Company:
American Public University System (NASDAQ:APEI) - Dr. Clay Wilson is the Program Director for Cybersecurity
Dr. Clay Wilson is the Program Director for Cybersecurity graduate studies at the American Public University, where he has responsibility for designing new courses. He is past Program Director for Cybersecurity Policy at the University of Maryland University College (UMUC), where he oversaw development of new graduate-level courses. Dr. Wilson is also a former analyst for national defense policy at the Congressional Research Service where he analyzed cyber intelligence reports for the U.S. Congress and NATO committees on net-centric warfare, cybersecurity, nanotechnology, and other vulnerabilities of high-technology military systems and critical infrastructures. More info: http://www.apu.apus.edu/academic/faculty-members/bio/4438/clay-wilson
Implant Sciences ( OTCQB:IMSC ) is the leader in next generation Explosives Trace Detection (ETD) and established counter-terrorism technology that detects and identifies threats from the small amounts left behind after a person handles explosives. Implant Sciences' security solutions are used worldwide for aviation, public transport, customs, air cargo, critical infrastructure, ports/ borders, and emergency response. The Company has thousands of units deployed to over 50 countries, and its trace detectors have been successfully used at the Sochi Olympics, Beijing Olympics, the Universiade Games, and the Special Olympics.
In January 2013, IMSC became only the third ETD manufacturer and the sole American-owned company to have product approval from the US Transportation Security Administration. With advanced capabilities including superior sensitivity, automatic internal calibration, rapid clear-down, push button maintenance, and administration of trace detection, the Company's handheld QS-H150 and desktop QS-B220 simplify the use, maintenance, and administration of trace detection. www.implantsciences.com
Applied DNA Sciences ( OTCQB: APDN ) is a provider of botanical-DNA based security and authentication solutions that can help protect products, brands, entire supply chains, and intellectual property of companies, governments and consumers from theft, counterfeiting, fraud and diversion. SigNature(R) DNA describes the uncopyable marker that is at the heart of all of the Company's security and authentication solutions. SigNature DNA is at the core of a family of products such as DNANet, APDN's antitheft product, and digitalDNA, which provides powerful track and trace. All provide a forensic chain of evidence and can be used to prosecute perpetrators. www.adnas.com
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The growing list of speakers and presenters includes Michael Balboni, Former New York State Senator and Founder of RedLand Strategies, Mr. Lester Quintana, Senior Vice President for Consulting Services, Cellucci Associates, Inc., Kris Tuttle, Director of Research for SoundView Technology Group; cybersecurity expert and counterterrorism analyst Roger Cressey*, Partner with Liberty Group Ventures; and Kiersten Todt**, President and Managing Partner of Liberty Group Ventures.
*From 2004 - 2013, Roger Cressey served as an on-air counterterrorism analyst with NBC News, appearing frequently on NBC Nightly News, The Today Show, MSNBC and CNBC.
**Ms. Todt has commented on homeland security and sport security issues in multiple media outlets, including MSNBC, NPR, Bloomberg, and The Wall Street Journal. Her work on sport security has been published in two editions of The International Centre for Sport Security Journal.
Other speakers include Jason Kolbert, Head of Healthcare Research, Senior Managing Director and Biotechnology Analyst, Maxim Group; Manish Thakur, Managing Partner of Hudson Fairfax Group;
Marty Martin, CEO of Crane & Crane Consulting, who also has a background with the CIA, NSA, and the U.S. Army; Scott Greiper, President and Founding Partner of Secure Strategy Group; Scott Sacknoff, President of Spade Defense Index (NYSE: ^DXS); Janice Kephart, Founder and CEO of The Secure Identity and Biometrics Association (SIBA) and Phil Agcaoili, Chairman, Ponemon Institute Fellows Co-founding Member, Cloud Security Alliance Board Member, Mobile Active Defense.
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